Tip #1 Top Ten highlights of Summer ’14 Release
I am sure you have all read the Summer ’14 Release Notes doc, it’s ONLY 331 pages this time… But just in case you haven’t here are the Top 10 features that I spotted.

Pilot version of Duplicate Detection (ask your SFDC Representative to enable this). This is also available on Salesforce1 App.

With the SFDC1 ‘TODAY’ functionality, import an event on your phone directly to the SFDC Calendar. Also you can do add a new contact from your phone into SFDC1.

Roll out Chatter for a subset of Users (control this via custom profiles or permission sets)

Chatter Questions (beta), users can view similar questions and articles as they enter their question. Users can also select a Best Answer.

Enhancements to Salesforce for Outlook, including access to ‘Help’, more Publisher Actions available.

Price book entry customisations, so you can now create and edit custom fields, layouts, validation rules.

Enhancements to Reports and Dashboards on the SFDC1 App, including ‘Drill to Report’

Mass Delete Reports. Under the Setup menu you can now clear out those public reports that are never run!

Changes to the ‘Manage Users’ permission, to make sure it is not over used, now there are 8 new more specific permissions.

Advanced Setup search (beta, enable this at customize/user interface), so you can search for custom field definitions, custom objects etc

Tip #2 A Summer of Hacks
Build the best mobile app at one of these Hackathons (New York, Bangalore, Los Angeles, London) to win some pretty good prizes, and a lot of prestige. And it looks like its not just for the techies, there are 3 roles that you could play (Developer, Designer, or Secret Weapon). I guess by default that makes me a ‘Secret Weapon’!?
Take a look here for more details and registration and maybe see you in London July 25th – 27th.